The Orleans County Monitor was a weekly newspaper published in Barton, Vermont from January 8, 1872 to 1953.[1][2] It was published by Ellery H. Webster in 1872.[3] An American Civil War veteran, he named it after the USS Monitor.[4] George H. Blake published the paper in 1877. The circulation was 1,400.[5] Wallace Harry Gilpin owned the paper from 1904-1953[2]